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Tonbo! Season 2 Reveals More Cast, Theme Song Artists, October 5 Debut
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The staff for second season.
Shown below is the new visual for main character Tonbo! Oi, now in high school. Rika Hayashi reprises the role from the first season.
Shown below is the new visual for Tonbo's friend and rival Tsubura Adaniya. Eri Kitamura reprises the role from the first season.
The newly announced characters and cast include:
The Japanese pop duo TOKYO GROOVE JYOSHI performs the second season's ending theme song "It's time to win."
The anime will premiere on TRUE iD.
Most of the anime's main staff is returning. Naoto Kondō as color key artist.
Nobuko Toda composed the music.
The manga's story begins with Igarashi, who was disqualified as A Pro golfer after a certain "incident" and thus moves to Kagoshima Prefecture's Tokara Islands to step out of the limelight. On these islands known as "Japan's last unexplored wilderness," he encounters a naive girl named Tonbo.
As it turns out, these supposedly unexplored islands have a homemade golf course, where Tonbo plays every day. She demonstrates genius-level prowess, playing every kind of shot with just one golf club, a 3-iron. Igarashi is amazed at Tonbo's talent, even as he harbors doubts about her only using a 3-iron. Yet, hidden deep in Tonbo's heart lies a painful, sad past ….
Story creator Kawasaki and artist Furusawa launched the ongoing manga in Golf Digest, a general-interest golfing magazine from Golf Digest Sha Co., Ltd., in August 2014.
Source: Press release
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